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Doves Farm Quick Yeast from Lakeland.....
OK I bought some to try after seeing it mentioned on this board several times. Is it OK to use it in my breadmaker? Both I and my mother have used it to make several loaves and each time they are not rising properly. being quick yeast it doesn't have to be activated does it? We are using 7g of yeast to 464g of flour to…
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Master grocery list - menu planning
I have spent last night playing about with Excel to produce a Master Grocery list in 3 columns. I listed all the things we buy (took a wee while!) in one column and left the other column blank and put an autofilter on the spreadsheet. Then I went through my cupboards seeing what I needed today and put an x next to them on…
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ovens....
I hate :mad: my current oven...single belling fan oven...it doesn't cook evenly and being a single is very limiting and I wondered what ovens you all have and would you recommend them/buy them again...?
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£10 to last a week! arrrrrggghhh
Hi everyone, I posted my Meal Planned week the other day but I failed :( I looked in the freezer and we had enough meals to last us the evenings so I thought we would wait til nxt week to start... however, we still bought a few takeaway and ate at family's so its still all in the freezer! :mad: Now I've got £10 to last…
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Descaling - Kettles, Dishwashers etc.
Citric Acid does just the same job as expensive descaling tablets and is available cheaply from Chemists.
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OS Daily Friday 5th Sept 08
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for today. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything OS and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in,…
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Saving My Bar-B-Que ?
Not sure exaclty where to post this on here, so apologies if it is in the wrong place .... I've got one of those fairly large trolley style bar-b-ques, but sadly for a number of reasons, it has been left out in the rain (bless our Summer !) and now the large 'pan' area of it is a bright orange (rust) colour. It is not…
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The Bean Book
With autumn coming and the general need to tighten our belts I have dusted off my ancient copy of The Bean Book. Lots of recipes look pretty good and I remember a few. Does anyone have any favourites from this one that they would recommend I start off with? Many thanks, Ness.
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Help! Craft activities for Beaver group
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes :-) My OH needs to find a creative activity for the Beaver Scouts he helps with. There are about 15 boys and the activity should last for about 20 minutes. We have tried to think of loads of things - spiral paper snakes, racing paper fish, making masks etc but they…
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Help me clean my baking tray, please
My baking tray is all full of baked on stains that since i gave it a good scrub a few weeks ago has started to peel off :o . Now normally i`d throw it away but its a good size and still a lot of life left in it.At the moment i`ve got it soaking in hot water with soda crystals and keep scrubbing it with a wire scrub. Its…
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No bake cake
It's my cake week at work next week and I don't have an oven! I don't want to make rice crispie cakes etc as these have been done to death - although I do love them. I'd like to do something chocolatey, but am a little worried about the reicpes. I don't really have the funds for trial and error. What do you think of the…
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Decoarting a white formica blanket box for toddlers room
Hi everyone! Our neighbours have given us an old stylie white formica blanket box they no longer need as they figured it would be a nice toybox for our eldest (3), which is lovely of them. It's not what I would usually go for and wondered if anyone had any success decorating this kind of thing, as the surface is so smooth?…
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help... veggie daughter dislikes vegetables...
any ideas on what i can give my dd 12yrs who has decided to become a veggie but she hates vegetable..aarrgghh i can`t just feed her pasta forever...lol just need some ideas, as whether this is just a passing phase or not i want to respect her decision. thanks skint xx
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Miracle ideas needed to dry washing !!
Our washing machine has given up the ghost and until we can buy a replacement I'm hoping somebody can suggest a way of speeding up the drying of heavy dripping wet objects like thick sweaters and towels. It's really speeding up the process of removing the last dripping trickles I'm after. Once they've reached that stage I…
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Would you eat this?
My dear friend made a curry on Sunday (all from scratch with chicken and loads of different veges and fresh spices etc). "Bring a pot when you come over," she said "and I'll give you some of my curry." On Tuesday I duly went with my plastic container. There was a large saucepan on the stove full of curry, some of which she…
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Mealplans WB 5th September 2008
Hi Guys! Another week.....where has it gone?????? This week we are having: Thursday-Chicken, Roasties, Yorkies, Carrots & Peas Friday-Lamb Stew & Dumplings Saturday-At friends Sunday-Steak, Chips, Garlic Bread & Salad Monday-Fishfingers, Mash & Roasted Veg Tuesday-Chops in SC, Mini Roasties, Carrots & Peas…
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os THURSDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for today. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything OS and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come in,…
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HUGE challenge for you all!
we booked a holiday to disneyland a few weeks ago, to leave on 4th january staying for 6 days, 5 nights - half board. this was gonna cost us £1007 + insurance. so we paid the deposit of £107 plus insurance and have to find the balance by 5th november. now i've just gone and done something REALLY stupid :rotfl: i looked…
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Mushroom foraging
Hi I wondered if there was anyone on this thread who has some expertise regarding foraging mushrooms? The reason I ask is that there are a few places near to me where I can get mushrooms, but I lack the experience to know which ones are edible and which are not! :eek: I thought it might be a good idea to start a thread…
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A Nice Juicy Melon
Not exactly moneysaving but i want to get a nice melon for my daughter(whose incredibly fussy),shes asked for some which is a huge thing for her if you look at my previous posts you will see what i mean. So come on fellow mses and please suggest a nice juicy one i can get many thanks
